At the beginning of the movie, we see a journalist named Murugan in Malaysia. He says that Malaysia
is home to the largest Tamilian population outside Tamil Nadu. Despite the huge Tamilian influence,
the way Malaysians communicate, their food, their beliefs, cultures, traditions, etc differ in many
ways. He started documenting all their interesting stories, particularly the paranormal ones.
Now one day he meets Shankar for a story, who tells him that six months ago, Guru, Anbu,
and himself happened to play a game called "Spirit of the Coin". We then see them playing the game,
where Shankar pricks his finger and places it on the coin, and tries to summon the spirit. The coin
moves to yes, and Shankar asks the spirit its name. The coin moves again and tells its name
as Kenedy. Guru doubts that Shankar is moving the coin, but he says he is not doing this and asks
him to ask something. Guru asks Shankar to ask the spirit for his great-grandfather's name, and
when Shankar does so, the spirit tells the name Anirudh. Anbu asks him if it's correct, to which
he says No, and reveals that there is no spirit here, he was just fooling around with them. Now
knowing this, Shankar gets angry with him and says he need not play with them. Guru leaves there,
and Shankar asks Anbu if he has a much older coin? He shows him the oldest coin from his collection,
and Shankar pours a drop of his blood on it. Now before they start playing, Guru asks Shankar to
invite a pretty female ghost. Shankar then tries to summon the spirit again, and Anbu says the coin
is getting warm. Soon the coin starts moving and Shankar asks Guru to get a pen and paper.
He asks him to concentrate on the coin and draw what it's trying to say. Guru draws it and the
word comes out as Palani, and Anbu says maybe Palani could be the name of the spirit, However,
Guru reveals that it's his great-grandfather's name. Shankar asks Guru if he can get some chili
powder or flour from the kitchen? Guru brings coffee powder and Shankar asks him to sprinkle
some of it on the board. The spirit then tells them that her name is Malika and she is 23 years
old. She died in 2010 by drowning in a river and she was a student at Universiti Utara Malaysia.
Guru asks her to give them a sign if she is a real spirit, as he thinks one of them is doing
this. Shankar asks her if she can tell Anbu and him a secret that they don't know about Guru but
only Guru knows. Malika asks Guru if should she tell them about what he did with a girl in this
house? Guru freaks out and spills coffee on the board, and Shankar gets furious seeing this.
Now that night, Shankar wakes up hearing some sound, and when he comes downstairs, he hears a
girl laughing. Only then he notices that a girl is crying behind him sitting near the piano.
She asks him to come close to her, and then she turns and gets up, and asks him if he wants her.
The next day, Guru searches for Malika over the internet, and after a while, he gets her pictures
and prints it out. Later when Shankar and Anbu return home, he shows those pictures to them, and
tells them it's Malika. Shankar asks him where did he get this from? to which he says he surfed the
internet to find out whether yesterday's incidents were true or not and he found these photos on an
old university of Malaysia blog posted by a guy named Deepak in 2010. Later, Shankar brings a
Tamil alphabet chart and says it will be useful to them. They then start playing the game again
where she confirms that it's her in the photo, and when Guru asks her how did she drown in the river?
she answers betrayal. Anbu asks her if she has any desires. to which she says Revenge. Now when
Shankar asks her if she can give them a four-digit number so that they can win the lottery? she says
yes, but what she will get in return? Shankar says they can give them anything, to which she asks for
a 2 legged animal. Shankar agrees to this, but Guru says it is fine until they wanted to play
the game, but now they are taking it way too far, and he asks them to end this right now.
Only then Malika asks if he is showing off because Thoppan and Chokkan are with him? Shankar says he
doesn't get it, but Guru gets furious and leaves there. Shankar gets scared seeing him so angry
and tells her that they will talk later. The next day, Guru tells Shankar that last night
he had a dream in which Mallika appeared before him in a terrifying form and tried to kill him
by strangling him. He then hands him a tuft of hair and tells him this is Malika's hair. Now
Shankar gets terrified and Guru tells him this is not Malika's spirit. He had his suspicions
when she said out his ancestor's name, and now she is talking about Thoppan and Chokkan.
He tells him that since lord Ganesha has a big belly, his grandma would address him as thoppan,
and In Madurai, Lord Shiva is addressed by another name Chokkan. Both of these Gods have been
worshipped by his family for generations. and now she is asking for a two-legged animal. They then
return home and start playing, and Shankar asks Malika, why did she disturb guru in his dream? But
Guru asks angrily who she is. The spirit asks if they want her to confront and tell, to which Guru
says he is not scared of her. Shankar asks her what she wants, to which she says a Two-legged
animal. This enrages Guru and he puts his foot on the table saying he says he wants to talk to her
face-to-face. Shankar pushes him back, and the spirit tells them that death will arrive soon.
Guru asks Shankar to tell her to kill someone now, and then he leaves with the coin and the chart,
and as he throws them out of the house, the lights go off. and the next morning they find Guru dead
in the bathroom. Shankar tells Murugan that everyone thought Guru slipped and died because
he was drunk, and the forensic report too declared he was drunk. but only he and Anbu knew that it
was Malika who caused Guru's death. Murugan asks him how he is so sure about it, to which he says
he wants to tell him something Anbu doesn't know. The day guru died, when he went to pick him up,
he saw that coin there. After that incident, they didn't want to stay in that house anymore,
and the coin is still there. He then takes him to Anbu and tells him that after Guru's death,
he got the chart, and kept saying Malika is the reason Guru died.
Murugan then asks him if he can have a look at that coin? Now that night Shankar takes him to
that house, where Murgan asks him if he can have a look at Malika's photo. He shows him her photo,
and then Murgan asks him where did guru died? He shows him the place but says he will not go
there. Murugan goes there alone and takes out the coin from the drain. He then comes
out and tells him that it looks like the currency from his country. but he doesn't
understand what's written here. He then shows him anbu's coin collection and Murgan asks him
if he knows who Anbu bought this coin from? Shankar tells him whenever he buys something,
he makes a note of it in a notebook. They then find that a guy named Deepak sold this coin to
Anbu. Shankar then shows him that photo and tells him Deepak uploaded this photo in the year 2010
and that Malika told them that she died in the year 2010. Murugan says if they find Deepak,
they will know who is Malika and they can decode the mystery of her death. They then decide to go
to the address given by Deepak and Anbu says he will also go with them. The next day they leave
for Penang, Murgan calls her mom and says he is sending her a photo and asks her to get the
information about it from his Dad. Now when they go to Deepak's house, they get shocked
to see Malika there, and Shankar asks her about the coin. She asks him how they get this coin.
They then tell them the whole story and Shankar says he wants to know how his friend died and what
is the relation between her and this coin. Malika tells them she stayed in a hostel when she was in
her second year of college. Saro was her roommate there and they visited Muzium Lembah Bujang once.
She saw many archaeological findings there and noticed the Indian influence of the olden days.
She was very interested in Archaeology so she joined apart time archeology course there. One day
they took them to a paddy field for an assignment where she finds a spot on the excavation site.
Suddenly a lady appears there and Malika asks her why is the soil like this. She tells her that
the soil is not yet fertile, and then she leaves there saying it is not advisable to be here alone,
and she found the coin there only. Then after a few days, she started feeling someone's presence
in the room whenever Saro was not in the room. Then one day, Saro asks her about the marks on
her neck, thinking them of as love bites. When she checked them later, she found spots on her
neck and her back as well. She felt something was not right and tried to tell Saro about it,
but she never took it seriously. Then one night when she was at a market,
an old man there asked her to meet him. The man tells her that he sees a black entity behind her
and he thinks she is in great danger, and he asks her to meet him at the temple tomorrow,
but she didn't take his words seriously. Then one night they were celebrating Saro's birthday when
she saw something while Saro was busy clicking photos. Later, she goes to the washroom and
sees a black figure behind her in her phone's camera. Now that night while she was sleeping,
her finger start bleeding, and she woke up hearing some sound and gets terrified seeing an entity
licking her blood. She tries to wake up Saro and tells her there is someone there, but she finds
no one there and tries to calm her down. Only then someone knocks on the door, and she hears
Saro asking her to open the door, and she realizes it's not Saro but the entity with her in the room.
After that, she went to the temple to meet the old man. She tells him there is a problem in her
hostel, to which he tells her that the problem with her. He asks her if has she been to a
cemetery or an old house lately? or has she taken something that is not hers? He tells her there
is an unsettled spirit following her around. She tells him she visited a paddy field for
an assignment and brought back an old coin that she found there. He tells her that the mere coin
that she possesses is seen as a soul treasure by the spirit. She better returns the coin from the
place she took it and apologize that she took it. He then performs a pooja, and gives her a vel and
sacred ash asking her to keep it with her always. When she returns to her hostel, she gets terrified
seeing that entity waiting for her in her room, and it starts moving towards her. Now out of fear,
that sacred ash falls down fromher hands, and strangely that entity picks up that ash and
applies it to its forehead. Malika then puts that vel in front to protect herself, but that entity
breaks it too, and says he is the one who prays to the father of Suppan, and then it disappears from
there. After that, she asked Deepak to return the coin to the field, and then she went back
to her hometown. Murugan asks her has anything disturbed her after she returned the coin? to
which she says No. Only then Shankar asks him the meaning of "Father of Suppan". to which he says
it's another name of Lord Murugan and the Father of Suppan is Lord Shiva. Shankar asks if it's a
ghost, why would it say such a thing? to which Murgan says what if it's not a ghost. He says
from the moment she took the coin from its place, she got into trouble. Later, Deepak sold the coin
to them. After seven years, they played the game using the coin and got into trouble. It pretended
to be Malika with them both, but showed its actual self to Malika. Why did it pretend to be someone
else to them? Shankar says when they played that day, Guru asked for a pretty female ghost. Murugan
says the whereabouts he told them about Malika was all true, except that she died by drowning
in an invisible river. Malika says she took this coin from a river and shows them the map of Kedah.
During those days it was known as Kadaram and the entire area was a sea. There was an
ancient trade city there and the place was once invaded by emperor Rajendran Chola. Over time,
the wide river became narrower and broke into smaller branches. As time passed,
these small rivers became shallow and muddy puddles were formed.
She found the coin from the paddy field which was once a muddy swamp. Murugan says it pretended to
be Malika so they could meet her in real life, because it's only she who knows the whereabouts
of the spirit., and It killed Guru because he tried to obstruct its quest. He asks Malika if
she can take them to that paddy field? but Deepak asks them to take that coin and leave. He says
it's their problem so they should deal with it. It enrages Shankar and he punches Deepak saying he is
the real culprit. If he had left the coin there, none of this would have happened. He asks him to
return the coin to the place she took it from, or show them the place and they will do it. Only then
Murgan gets a call from his dad, who tells him that the coin looks ancient and he guesses these
coins were used during the Pandian era that ended around 1800 years ago. The coin also has a symbol
that looks like a human holding a trident and maybe it's a depiction of Lord Shiva or a symbol
of worshipping Lord Shiva. Malika then takes them to the place from where she got that coin,
and she places that coin there and apologizes for her mistake. But Murugan picks up that coin
and starts digging that place, and they are all shocked seeing this. Deepak then takes Malika
from there, and Shankar asks Murgan what is he doing. Only then he finds a piece of iron there,
and he asks Shankar if he will help him dig this and look for what's inside. After a while,
they find a skeleton there and an anchor, that looks like the symbol on the coin,
and the skeleton looks like has been chained to this anchor.
Only then Murugan notices Anbu attacking him and he saves himself. He then says Guru's death was
not caused by a ghost and asks Anbu to tell him the truth. He asks Shankar to think why didn't
the coin that killed Guru, didn't do anything to Malika. He tells him that while they were
at Malika's place, he noticed anbu's eyes were only focused on the coin. Even at his place,
he was all focused on the coin. Shankar asks Anbu if he killed Guru? to which he reveals that the
other day while he was out looking for Guru, he played the game again so that he could speak
with Malika privately. Just like he wanted his lottery numbers, he asked her to cure his legs,
and it asked for a two-legged animal. He thought he could provide a duck or a chicken, but Malika
asked for a human body. Then that night after they both dozed off, he went to look for the coin,
because he wanted to speak to Malika. Malika then made him stand on his feet for a minute and says
if he wants to restore his legs permanently, he should reach the dead river bed, find the hidden
anchor, and bring the dead human body there. She then asks him to sacrifice his friends,
and only then guru comes there to find him playing the game. He takes that coin into the washroom and
starts flushing it, but Anbu pushes him to stop him, and Guru dies in all this. Now Shankar says
so he is the 2 legged animal he wants to kill now, and suddenly he knocks Murugan out. He then asks
Anbu did it really help him walk? and then says if it can help him walk, it definitely can give
him one million ringgit. It just wants a 2 legged animal, so they can offer Murugan to it. He then
asks him what to do next, to which he tells him to untie the bond and set it free. Shankar does
the same and frees the skeleton by breaking the chain, and then he himself with Anbu comes out of
that pit. He then pulls Murugan out as well, and only then the entity rises and comes out
of the pit. He gets up and praises the almighty and starts looking for something there. He then
comes to them and asks them where is the body he asked for. to which they point toward Murgan.
He then grabs Murgan and says one's man trash, another man's treasure,
and Murugan asks him who he is. to which he says he is known as Poochaandi. We
then learn that he was punished for mocking Madurai's king and worshipping lord shiva,
and was thrown into the sea with an anchor tied to his body.
He says he waited for this opportunity for thousands of years, and now the time
for his revenge has arrived. He then sits on him and hands him that coin,
after which he transfers himself into his body. After a while, he wakes up in his body,
and then leaves there, and we see that Shankar and Anbu have gone mad. We are then told that
the real meaning of Poochandi is the relationship between history and religion. There was a dark
era in the history of the Tamilians called as Era of the kalapir atchi. They introduced a new
rule as soon as they came to power that nobody must worship lord shiva. The devotees of Shiva
disobeyed this rule and continued worshipping Lord Shiva and rubbing Sacred ashes on their
bodies. They were called Poochandi, the followers of Lord Shiva. We then see Murugan on a plane to
Madurai holding that coin in his hand, and the movie ends here. Please like and subscribe to
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